A woman has given birth to a baby weighing 11lb 8oz, which is roughly the average size of a two or three-month-old. When Sarah Dines, 35, from Broadstone, Dorset, welcomed her first baby, Montague, ...

Doctors laughed when baby Monty was born as the towel they wrapped him in didn’t fit (Picture: Mercury Press) 11lbs 8oz: the weight of a tin of paint, two fully-grown chihuahuas, or a bowling ball.